The Slave Market is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a West Asian or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the co
Jean Léon Gérôme Le Marché d'esclaves
Gérome's Buying A Slave (1857), with a Classical setting, predated The Slave Market by almost ten years.
Greek Slave (1870), an unfinished (due to theft) painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Slave Market (1871), Cincinnati Art Museum
The Snake Charmer
Videos
The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a le
The Slave Market (Gérôme painting)
…sold several times until Robert Sterling Clark bought it in 1930. Since 1955 it is part of the Clark Art Institute's collection. Along with Gérôme's The Snake Charmer (also owned by the Clark), The Slave Market has become an iconic example of 19th-century orientalist art. Maxime Du Camp, who had travelled extensively…
Jean Léon Gérôme Le charmeur de serpents
Another painting by Gérôme entitled The Snake Charmer, date unknown, New Orleans Museum of Art.
Jean-Léon Gérôme and Aimé Morot, study for The Snake Charmer, by 1877, private collection.
Jean Léon Gérôme self portrait c 1884 Eskenazi Museum Bloomington